Capitol Sessions CD

MUSIC

JAZZ

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Bud's Open ~ Mike Melvoin

2. I Think I Know ~ Mike Melvoin

3. You Won't Hear Me Say Goodbye - (featuring Bill Henderson) ~ Mike Melvoin

4. Here's Looking At You ~ Mike Melvoin

5. Haunted Heart ~ Mike Melvoin

6. Ruth's Waltz - (featuring Bill Henderson) ~ Mike Melvoin

7. I Never Told You ~ Mike Melvoin

8. Hello My Lovely ~ Mike Melvoin

9. Blues For Leroy ~ Mike Melvoin

10. Living Without You - (featuring Bill Henderson) ~ Mike Melvoin

11. Monday ~ Mike Melvoin

12. 52nd Street ~ Mike Melvoin

13. La Luna Negra ~ Mike Melvoin

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Mike Melvoin (piano); Bill Henderson (vocals); Charlie Haden (upright bass).
	Recorded at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, California, August 14 & 15, 1999. Includes liner notes by Dirk Sommer.
	Liner Note Author: Dirk Sommer.
	Recording information: Capitol studios, Los Angeles, CA (08/14/1999/08/15/1999).
	Photographer: Anna Tooth.
	Mike Melvoin is a renowned session musician, which is one meaning implied in giving the title The Capitol Sessions to one of his rare recordings under his own name. Another is that the album, on which Melvoin plays acoustic piano accompanied by acoustic bass player Charlie Haden and, on three cuts, singer Bill Henderson, is more of a session that happens to have been recorded and put on disc than a tightly organized collection of music. That's perhaps appropriate, not only because this is jazz, but also because Melvoin has spent his career coming up with things at the spur of the moment. Certainly, he sounds assured here, revealing a flowing style full of ideas he has no trouble executing. He is a traditional player who takes melody as his basis for working out variations. The use of only two instruments, with Haden's bass supporting most of the time, allows space for those variations to flower, making this an immediately enjoyable listen. Of course, at more than 72 minutes, it's a lot of piano playing, and Melvoin is wise to bring in his long-time partner Bill Henderson for three vocals spaced out along the way. Henderson's voice is reminiscent of Joe Williams in his higher register, and he works well with his accompanists. Occasionally, the pace picks up, notably on the bopish "52nd Street" near the end of the disc, but for the most part this is a low-key effort that demonstrates the quiet brilliance of a player who has rarely put himself in the forefront and does so here in a suitably introspective manner. ~ William Ruhlmann
Producer: Mike Melvoin
Engineer: Ken Christianson
Musical Guests
	Bill Henderson

Technical Info

	Release Date : 04/10/2000
	Original Release Date : 2000
	Catalog ID : NAIMCD 025
	Label : Naim Audio
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00797537102528

Professional Reviews

Down Beat (8/00, p.66)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...A nicely crafted duo....the results are modest but unobtrusively satisfying as wee-small-hours music full of lingering, languorous tempos that occupy time without filling it with a great deal that is especially aggrandizing..."

JazzTimes (10/00, p.95)
- "...Honest, acoustic, straight-ahead jazz....the results are satisfying....Melvoin is eloquent and introspective..."

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